{"id":22293,"date":"2016-08-13T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:24:58","slug":"angst-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/angst-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Angst, My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you don\u2019t like him<br \/>\nthink he\u2019s no good for me<br \/>\nand I can do better<br \/>\nbut I just can\u2019t help myself<br \/>\neach time I get near him<br \/>\nthere\u2019s something about him<br \/>\nthat just draws me in<br \/>\nI get so wrapped up in<br \/>\neverything about him<br \/>\nthe way he walks, talks, smells<br \/>\nthe funny little looks he<br \/>\nthrows my way<br \/>\nand when we\u2019re alone together<br \/>\nthe way he knows how to push<br \/>\nevery last one of my little buttons<br \/>\nI get to the point where I just<br \/>\nscream out loud<br \/>\nI can\u2019t help myself<br \/>\nAnd when he\u2019s done with me<br \/>\noh, such feelings of sweet relief<br \/>\nSometimes I feel silly<br \/>\nknowing how I act when he\u2019s around<br \/>\nknowing how I could do so much better<br \/>\nbut then lower myself to his<br \/>\ntricks and traps<br \/>\nEach time I promise myself<br \/>\nI won\u2019t go to him<br \/>\nthat I can be stronger without him<br \/>\nbe a better person to steer clear<br \/>\nIn the end<br \/>\nI can\u2019t imagine my life without him<br \/>\nStill, if anyone asks<br \/>\nI deny we\u2019re seeing each other<br \/>\nspending any time together<br \/>\nI know he sees other people<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t bother me<br \/>\nbecause I know he\u2019ll always come back to me<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ll always take him in.<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt: Angst &#8211; without being cliche using love or death. Well, lots of\u00a0cliche, but not in a typical way when writing about angst.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you don\u2019t like him think he\u2019s no good for me and I can do better but I just can\u2019t help myself each time I get near him there\u2019s something about him that just draws me in I get so wrapped up in everything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}